Army cuts announced by defence secretary - video

The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, says five battalions will disappear and 17 units will be axed in the biggest overhaul of the British army for decades. In a Commons statement, Hammond says the changes will reduce the army's overall strength by 20,000. There will be at least two more tranches of redundancies next year and in 2014

Source: ITN

Thursday 5 July 2012 09.06 EDT
First published on Thursday 5 July 2012 09.06 EDT